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“All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.” Aldous Huxley, “Brave New World” - 1932

“When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.” Sun Tzu, “The Art of War” - 5th century BC

“Of all the train none escaped except Wamba, who showed upon the occasion much more courage than those who pretended to greater sense.” Walter Scott, “Ivanhoe” - 1820

“We just wanted to get out of there, to get away and reach our destination in safety. Nothing else mattered.” Anne Frank, “The Diary of a Young Girl” - 1947

“I was consumed by the mystery Edward presented. And more than a little obsessed by Edward himself. Stupid, stupid, stupid. I wasn't as eager to escape Forks as I should be, as any normal, sane person would be.” Stephenie Meyer, “Twilight” - 2005

“He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.” John Green, “Looking for Alaska” - 2005

“Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go somewhere where you don't know a soul?” Haruki Murakami, “Norwegian Wood” - 1987

“You think you can get rid of things, and people too—leave them behind. You don’t yet know about the habit they have, of coming back.” Margaret Atwood, “The Blind Assassin” - 2000

“Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to slip through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won't be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there—to the edge of the world. There's...” Haruki Murakami, “Kafka on the Shore” - 2002

“I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and in it.” Emily Brontë, “Wuthering Heights” - 1847

“whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon...” Herman Melville, “Moby-Dick” - 1851

“Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be...” Bruce Lee, “Tao of Jeet Kune Do” - 1975

“We have to go. I’m almost happy here.” Orson Scott Card, “Ender's Game” - 1985

“When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.” Charles Bukowski, “Factotum” - 1975

“I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance” - 1841

“We thought we were running away from the grown-ups, and now we are the grown-ups: this is the crux of it.” Margaret Atwood, “Cat's Eye” - 1988

“Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away to regions of purity, and there grow young again.” Gustave Flaubert, “Madame Bovary” - 1856

“Failure is a state of mind. It’s like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it.” John Steinbeck, “The Winter of Our Discontent” - 1961

“The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet of the same thing. But surely they were both intended to accomplish the same thing: the singing, the...” John Steinbeck, “East of Eden” - 1952

“He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away.” Joseph Conrad, “Heart of Darkness” - 1899

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